The Information World

  • Some interesting and amusing facts

    TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. It’s physically impossible for you to lick your elbow On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year. On average people fear spiders more than they do death. Women blink nearly twice as […]

  • Mosquito repellents don’t repel. They hide you

    Mosquito repellents don’t repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito’s sensors so they don’t know you’re there.

  • A plane in China had to be pushed half a mile

    A plane in China had to be pushed half a mile by its passengers after landing. Chinese Shandong Airlines Flight CRJ7 arrived at its destination at Zhengzhou Airport in September 2008 with no problems…until breaking down shortly after it landed.  The plane had to be removed from the runway, and the only way to do it […]

  • Women with a waist-to-hip ratio of 0.7 are generally rated as being more attractive.

    This ratio makes for dimensions of somewhere around a 25-inch waist and 36-inch hips. Mathematicians at Cambridge University discovered that these proportions make for the ideally sexy walk, with “a more angular swaying and bounce to the hips.” Famous women that fit this figure include Jessica Alba and Venus de Milo! Marilyn Monroe unfortunately missed […]

  • A new technology imprints text messages on your skin

    A new technology imprints text messages on your skin so you can read the message without having to get your phone out. This concept, called SkinDisplay, employs advanced piezoelectric technology, which stiffens materials using electricity. In this way, you could press your finger down on the back of your phone and the raised letters would […]

  • 5050

    If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total will become 5050

  • Three animals with blue Tongues

    There are only three animals with blue tongues, the Black Bear, the Chow Chow dog and the blue-tongued lizard.

  • Origin of word ‘Checkmate’ in Chess

    Many people play Chess and they don’t know the true meaning of Checkmate and its origin. Well, The word “Checkmate” in chess comes from the Persian phrase “Shah Mat“, which means “the king is dead”.

  • Why was the game Golf named Golf?

    Many years ago in Scotland, a new game was invented. It was ruled ‘Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden’… and thus the word “GOLF” entered into the English language. 

  • Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair

    Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair. It is a commonly known fact that people of high intelligence have high concentrations of Zine and Copper in their hair. The question is why? Why do very smart or extremely intelligent folks have more Zinc and Copper in their hair follicles? Some say that […]

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